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Hiking groups set up by and for ethnic minorities, often during lockdowns, are gaining in popularity

South Yorkshire walking club members hope to attract more people from minority ethnic groups.

Faizal Farook investigates the relationship between Britain’s diverse ethnic-minority communities and the country’s natural spaces

Faizal Farook investigates the relationship between Britain’s diverse ethnic-minority communities and the country’s natural spaces

The irony is, of course, that repairing broken windows, creating traffic jams and the use of glue (often containing hydrocarbons made from fossil fuels) all have a negative impact on the environment. From the goggles, hammers and chisels that they used to smash the windows to the clothes, masks and make-up they wore, to the mobile phones used, much of these things contained hydrocarbons. Almost two decades ago, I helped put a campaign together to raise awareness about domestic violence in my bo...

Submitting... Lumley spends time in Bradford, where she meets a group of Muslim women who have set up an allotment gardening project to combat loneliness. Five of them originally took on the ladies allotment on Scotchman Road, a former pig farm now owned by the city council, and they now occupy three plots and their membership includes 25 women from a range of ethnic backgrounds. They grow fruit and vegetables including chillis and Kashmiri spinach, and Lumley samples chutney and rhubarb cake m...

Joanna Lumley: ‘The UK is ravishing - travel with an open mind and you’ll be dazzled’ Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent © Burning Bright Productions Joanna Lumley - Burning Bright Productions Joanna Lumley is telling me about her bad hair day. “I’ve had a bit of a catastrophe. I always buy my hair dye at the supermarket and I chose one which said ‘light ash’ because I’m getting old and I want to have ash hair now.” She emphasises the word “ash” and pouts, pure Pa...